Overview
- Harris County deputies responding to a late-night welfare check were led into a Cicada Lane home by family members and called SWAT after a man barricaded himself in a bedroom with a woman.
- SWAT breached the room and found the woman dead and the man with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head; he was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive.
- Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the man was armed and may have fired shots before deputies arrived, and investigators are treating the case as a potential murder-suicide.
- Officials said the pair were in a dating relationship and lived at the residence, and records show deputies responded to the address about a year ago for a terroristic threats call.
- A separate case the previous morning at a northwest Houston apartment left a man, identified as Sherman Jamar Gibson, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot, a woman with severe head trauma, and a 6-year-old child unharmed, according to HCSO.